M1 Bridge Damage

[Marty Funkhouser]

Love the way that the Mail is reporting a casual piece of speculation in the headline...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1378308/Sp...

Amazing to think how much this is going to cost the insurers presumably, I pity anyone who needs the M1 to commute over the next few weeks/months...

[Marty Funkhouser]

DonkeyApple said:

I think the key is just what some people are storing on this very cheap commercial land.

Anyone who knows that stretch knows that for nearly 7 years until recently by Mill Hill on the earstern side there was the most enormous scrap pallet pile building up, along with car tyres. Exactly the sort of thing that actually would have burnt for weeks if it had been torched. It was genuinely enormous.

Obviously, this has since been moved and is now stored at the bottom of the M1 where the A406 slip road joins from the west, so absolutely no problem there.

Yes, that pile of wood must have been 50 feet from base to tip? IIRC though it was adjacent as opposed to underneath the motorway....even so, it would have done some fearful damage.

Would love to know what the costs involved are with this current situation.